Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin told an audience of Canadians this weekend that she used to "hustle" over the border to get her some of that cheap socialized medicine she now decries. Also, she can define irony correctly!

We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic.

Weigel notes that the closest Canadian city to Wasilla, Alaska — where Palin grew up after infancy — is more than 15 hours away, whereas Anchorage is less than an hour.

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In somewhat better news for Palin fans, she can correctly identify examples of irony when it suits her: patronizing a nationalized health care system because it is of similar quality at far less expense than the extremely expensive, bureaucratic one that leaves many Americans — including 18.2 percent of Alaskans while Palin was governor — without insurance after which you attack plans to reform the latter system by denigrating the former is irony. So there's that, at least.